Dear Juno,
I am really happy to see that your decided to have the baby. It must have been so hard to have to give up your baby. You were faced with the hardest decision of your life and in the end you made the right choice. I hope Vanessa really cares for him as a mother. I know you knew that the time was not right for you to raise a child. You were faced with a life changing decision with not a lot of time to decide. You did not want to feel forced to have a baby if you were not ready. Being a mom comes with a lot of responsibilities, time, and dedication. You were to selfish for putting the well being of your child above your own.
Regarding Roe vs. Wade, I believe it was every right for you to decide whether or not you wanted the baby. I believe that you did the right thing by delivering the baby. Roe vs. Wade let you make that choice. Before Roe vs. Wade, women had to risk their life to resort to illegal abortions. The constitution protects that right of women to make a decision about their own body.
It was the wrong choice of having sex with Paulie Bleeker and should not have been done unless you are ready and aware of the worst that can happen. Pregnancy can be a difficult and emotional thing to go through and at 16 you have your entire life ahead of you but you decided to put your life on hold to give your child to someone else. You didn’t get the chance to have a normal teenager high school experiences for 40 weeks of your life. Now you can focus on your future knowing that the baby you gave birth to will live life in a loving home which is something you knew you were not capable of doing. You also had to consider that even if you had the support of your family and friends to help raise your child because you definitely would have needed help, the baby would ultimately be your responsibility and not theirs so no matter how much support you were promised, in the end the responsibility of that child’s well being lies on you.
I know that you considered abortion but you decided that once a life was created and it had fingernails that it deserved to be born. There were a lot of things to consider. If I were in this situation to decide it would be so hard because you don’t know how abortion will affect you at the present and the future and you don’t know that if you create life how that child will feel knowing at a later age in their life that they were adopted. In the end, life was the best choice.